40 Jokes And Memes About The 1990s Shared In This Online Group That Today’s Kids Won’t Understand
Even though I’m happy with my life as it is now, I do miss the ‘90s and my childhood. When I’m feeling a bit blue, I tend to get nostalgic: I watch old cartoons, I get out my GameBoy color, I go outside and try to rediscover the sense of adventure every kid has when they’re small. Though it might be the rose-colored goggles talking, I genuinely feel that the ‘90s was a better, calmer time—especially compared to how complicated and confusing modern life is.
Today, we’re bringing you a big dose of nostalgia if you grew up in the ‘90s. We’re featuring the r/90s subreddit, a popular online group that shares posts and pics related to “everything about the 1990s.” Scroll down, upvote your fave pics, and let us know in the comments what you miss about the ‘90s the most.
Pssst, Pandas, when you’re done with this list, here are two more Bored Panda articles that will take you down nostalgia lane here (‘90s and 2000s) and here (obsolete things).
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If You Were Born Before 90’s You’ll Get It !
totally cool with being old, getting this joke, AND the fact that there are 60 others here that are the same. Cheers!
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Some people just like to feel special and saying "nobody else will get it, I'm so old" is a great way to do that.
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When the tape deck "eats" your cassette, you used a pencil in a hole the center ( they eyes in the pic) of the cassette to put it back in so you could continue to listen to it.
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If the tape deck accidentally caught the tape and pulled it out, you could sometimes save it by putting a pencil in the hole and rewinding it.
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I was technically born in the late 80s, so grew up in the 90s. Laughed too hard at this
Anyone delicately flip the spool to listen to it backwards for secret messages? Just me?
i THINK i get it (born in late 2000s) (only cuz i fish stuff out of stuff with pencils often.
Omg i feel so old i remeber doing this with my cassette tapes 😫
Yippee...I know ...I know!!! There’s finally an advantage to being 60+! Those are tape cassettes. Came after vinyl records and before discs. Occasionally the tape ribbon would get pulled out and you be had to be super careful to get it back in without getting a crease as this would interfere with the sound recording. You took a pencil or pen and stuck it in one of the holes witch was actually one of two ‘spools’, and carefully twisted it turning thus drawing the tape back inside the cassette.
I bought my mum a gramophone that also plays tapes and no joke, the "fixing a tape" picture showed a pencil in the hole as a way of fixing it.
Roll the tape back before your favorite song starts, otherwise, you miss it and can't record it before it is played the next time God-knows-when.
But Are You This Old?
Is This True??
We had freedoms you kids couldn't imagine...which is exactly why our kids did not ;)-
I’d gone in-depth about nostalgia for the past in a couple of great interviews with child and adolescent therapist Kemi Omijeh, who is based in London and is a member of the BACP.
"The period of time we tend to be nostalgic over are significant moments that stood out. Perhaps it was a time when we felt happiest or safest, or perhaps it’s a period where things changed for us,” she told Bored Panda.
"Our memories of the past can change over time depending on how often we revisit and also depending on what is going on for us in the present,” the therapist said.
Latchkey Kids Unite!
We used to roam about the whole neighbourhood and even beyond... and our parents were grateful. Of course, we were taught about safety. We have stayed at home when TV meant just one or two channels. This is Pre-90s India
I Agree, You Also Agree Guys?
Any Other 1990’s Kid Can Relate?
She joked that "of course, the '90s was better! But then again, I may be being very biased here." According to Kemi, our impressions of each decade are directly influenced by who we were during those time periods.
"Generally speaking, the better decade is associated with youth and freedom. Nostalgia also often gives us rose-tinted glasses from which to reflect. How we reflect on the past decades can play a part in how we engage with the current decade,” she said.
McDonald's Needs To Redesign
Trying to make themselves look like a restaurant. We ain't buying it, McDonald's.
Filters 90s Style
Windows 98
"Many psychologists, myself included, believe our childhood is the foundation to who we are as adults. It explains why we frequently revisit our childhood as it influences our present," the therapist told Bored Panda that we’re nostalgic for the times that we felt nurtured and loved.
However, the opposite is also true. “If we’ve had a difficult childhood, it can be hard to feel nostalgic, instead it will feel like something we need to get over in order to move on," she said.
Kids These Days Will Never Know The Struggle
And then it crashes when it reaches 99% because someone picked up the phone!
Accurate!
This One Speaks To Me And I’m Showing My Age
"Nostalgia can also be a good coping strategy for times of low mood and challenges," she said, warning that we should keep in mind that if it starts preventing us from living in the present, we should start getting worried.
“If we end up comparing it to our experiences today and feeling like nothing is as good as it was, then this will inevitably affect our mood and our ability to do what we need to do. We can become stuck in our nostalgia; in which case it might be best to seek help from a counseling professional to help you process your past in order to enjoy your present,” she said.
I Can't Look Away
It’s The Right Thing To Do!
This Was A Huge Thing Back Then For Sure! Just Had To Look Out Your Window.
Movie Time In School
Goals
Remember This?
Wish I Could Experience This Again
Pretty Much
I Always Imagine Them Inside A Cheese Grater
It probably IS a picture of the inside of a cheese grater. Special effects of the 90s!
I Was ....dressed In A Similar Fashion Sense Those Days.
When kids were allowed to be kids instead of sexualised advertising...
Hello There, Tim
Silly Erasers That Never Worked.
Is That True?
I'm so glad I got to experience the world when internet didn't exist yet
Who's With Me?
The Good Ol' Days
Who Remembers These?
After 9 And Weekends, Plus $.10 A Text
Gather Round, Children, While I Tell You Of Bath Beads
The bath was so slippery after using them. I have a scar on my chin as a proof of that :D
Fridays At Blockbuster
TV Guides
They Were The Best
Teenage Mutant Mid-Life Crisis...
Oh God The Feels
Lmfao
Not just in the 90s: it seems all actors of high school students gotta be at least like 30.
90s Pizza Hut
And stickers for reading books. I can't remember exactly how the program worked, but Pizza Hut definitely sponsored some sort of literacy reward program in the 90s.
We Have All Said It At Least Once
I Was 50% Cool In 96
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Pardon. I'm a 2000's kid but in a third world country. So, all this came late and was my child hood as well. So lemme in
The 90's was a good time period. The Berlin wall had fallen, the cold war was over, and 9/11 had not happend yet. There was no great evil enemy to the west, and global warming was not so critical yet. A relatively care free period (unless you lived in Yugoslavia of course)
The great evil enemy was pure propaganda. If you talk to the people who lived in countries that weren't strongly aligned with USSR or the USA, they would tell you that this fear of nuclear annihilation etc wasn't a thing in their lives.
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Ah, the nice time... Remember how all the world was ready to end because of the "Year 2000 problem"? 😄
It was called Y2K in the US. Sometimes I wonder if we all died then and now we're living in hell.
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All this came to India in 2000’s. So I am happy that I can relate to it!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I'm going through my picture albums now for even more!
Remember getting on a plane with a full bottle of water from tesco and not taking your shoes of?
Remember your friends/family being able to take you straight to your gate/meet you there when you deplaned?
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This is the article version of the Vengaboys new song 😆https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=479-_KHcyPQ
I'm a 2000's kid. Most of these were relatable, except for the ones about going places, going out to eat, and having friends. My family is large, and it's a hassle to go anywhere, so we didn't. Otherwise, this was nice :).
there's apparently a lot of millenials on this site? i want articles about memes that only gen z, boomers, gen x would get. share the audience specific memes with us. 200s kids are hogging them lol
Are... are you under the impression that you won't get old? Holy crap, I wish I could feel like I was this invincible again.
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Guess what! I'm a today's kid and I understood everything here. Half of this stuff isn't even that old. And my elementary school actually had a lot of these things xD
Gen zzzzzzz 😉 f**k gen labels it's too confusing. Bathe in the nostalgia, for one day you too shall be salty
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You need to look up the meaning of "whining" and then look in a mirror.
Load More Replies... Pardon. I'm a 2000's kid but in a third world country. So, all this came late and was my child hood as well. So lemme in
The 90's was a good time period. The Berlin wall had fallen, the cold war was over, and 9/11 had not happend yet. There was no great evil enemy to the west, and global warming was not so critical yet. A relatively care free period (unless you lived in Yugoslavia of course)
The great evil enemy was pure propaganda. If you talk to the people who lived in countries that weren't strongly aligned with USSR or the USA, they would tell you that this fear of nuclear annihilation etc wasn't a thing in their lives.
Load More Replies... Ah, the nice time... Remember how all the world was ready to end because of the "Year 2000 problem"? 😄
It was called Y2K in the US. Sometimes I wonder if we all died then and now we're living in hell.
Load More Replies... All this came to India in 2000’s. So I am happy that I can relate to it!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I'm going through my picture albums now for even more!
Remember getting on a plane with a full bottle of water from tesco and not taking your shoes of?
Remember your friends/family being able to take you straight to your gate/meet you there when you deplaned?
Load More Replies... This is the article version of the Vengaboys new song 😆https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=479-_KHcyPQ
I'm a 2000's kid. Most of these were relatable, except for the ones about going places, going out to eat, and having friends. My family is large, and it's a hassle to go anywhere, so we didn't. Otherwise, this was nice :).
there's apparently a lot of millenials on this site? i want articles about memes that only gen z, boomers, gen x would get. share the audience specific memes with us. 200s kids are hogging them lol
Are... are you under the impression that you won't get old? Holy crap, I wish I could feel like I was this invincible again.
Load More Replies... Guess what! I'm a today's kid and I understood everything here. Half of this stuff isn't even that old. And my elementary school actually had a lot of these things xD
Gen zzzzzzz 😉 f**k gen labels it's too confusing. Bathe in the nostalgia, for one day you too shall be salty
Load More Replies... You need to look up the meaning of "whining" and then look in a mirror.
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